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The Annual Multicultural Education Conference

2009 Provisional Program now Available

Download the current draft of the 2009 Program.

The Bilingual Multicultural Education Department sponsors an annual Multicultural Education Conference to provide an opportunity for Sac State faculty and educators to join forces in their efforts to promote multicultural education in K-12 public schools in the Sacramento region. 

The conference is part of an ongoing process for developing and maintaining a professional support network for the College of Education faculty, alumni, preservice Multicultural/Multilingual Teacher Preparation Association (MMTPA) teachers in the BMED Department, and inservice cooperating teachers, many of whom are former BMED graduates who are committed to the goals of multicultural education.

Due to the numerous reform efforts that that are particularly affecting educators who serve culturally and linguistically diverse students, the Bilingual Multicultural Education Department views this conference as an opportunity to provide more outreach and positive public relations for the university. The conference will accomplish its goals by offering a keynote speaker and break-out sessions related to multicultural education. Sac State faculty and teacher presentations will be voluntary without honorarium.

The conference sponsors want all interested educators to have an opportunity to participate as current educational budget constraints limit many teachers’ abilities to obtain school district funds and substitute release days in order to attend professional conferences. Approximately 45 break-out sessions will be presented by faculty, teachers and students at the conference. Service learning opportunities are available for MMTPA students in the BMED program to assist at the conference.

November 2009 Conference

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Past Conferences

2009: Saturday, February 21

Topic	Speaker
Youth Rising - Radical Healing and Activism in the Post Civil Rights Era	Dr. Shawn Ginwright Associate Professor of Education in the Africana Studies Department and Senior Research Associate for the Cesar Chavez Institute for Public Policy at San Francisco State University. View details of the 2009 Conference and/or slideshow

2008: Saturday, April 12

Topic	Speaker
Closing the Achievement Gap: Building Networks to Success	Dr. Francisco Reveles Professor, Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, CSUS View details of the 2008 Conference and/or slideshow

2007: Saturday, March 17

Topic	Speaker
Empowering Socially Responsible Multicultural Educators: An Examination of Institutional Policies and Practices	Dr. Sonia Nieto, Professor Emerita, School of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst View details of the 2007 Conference

2006: Saturday, Marh 25

Topic	Speaker
Education Reform and Social Justice Issues: A Grassroots [Re]Examination of Race, Class, and Society	Dr. Antonia Darder, Professor in Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2005: Saturday, March 12

Topic	Speaker
Reflections on the Elections: Educating and Empowering Diverse Students through Social Justice Action	Mr. Lee Mun Wah, Nationally acclaimed filmmaker, lecturer, and diversity trainer

2004: Saturday, March 6

Topic	Speaker
We Will Find a Way or We Will Make One: The Civil Rights Movement in Education	Dr. Duane Campbell

2003: Saturday, March 1

Topic	Speaker
Engaging in Social Action Inside the Accountability Movement	Christine Sleeter, Ph.D.